Benefit for William Thompson coming up

Hurricane Patty's, 69 Lewis Blvd., Oyster Creek, will be the setting from 6 to 10 p.m. Tuesday for a benefit to help young William Thompson.

Entertainment will be provided by Those Guys, and there will be auction items and all you can eat crab legs for $24.99.

Five percent of the sales from auction items will be presented to William's family to help pay his ever-mounting medical costs.

William, who has Pfeiffer Syndrome Type II, has been undergoing medical procedures ever since he was born. The community has come to his aid throughout his young life, and most recently he was in Tampa to be fitted with a halo-like device. Following that procedure his tongue swelled as his mother, Lisa, described it "as big as a baseball, and the family had to rush William to Dallas, where the youngster underwent yet another surgical procedure.

Now he is once again experiencing a fluid buildup around his brain, and a procedure known as chiari decompression must be performed.

Contributions can also be sent to William F. Thompson Special Needs Trust, M&I Bank, 5461 U.S. Hwy. 41 N., Apollo Beach, FL 33572.